Adventures of Architecture in Ostrava

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Topic for 2025: EMPTY SPACES and VIVID CITY
Strategies of transformations across post-industrial region

Transformation of post-industrial region of Ostrava has developed into various forms, strategies and approaches. An academic programme offers an interdisciplinary knowledge in the fields of contemporary and historical architecture, urban planning, history of architecture and urban geography.
A significant part of the program focuses on experimental procedures in the mediation of knowledge and creation of architectural solutions. Through lectures, presentations, symposia and walking tours we discover the past, the present and future development of architecture in Ostrava and nerby region. Program provides exploring its nature, wilderness, urban life and its future development. To get a vivid sense of the architecture and the city itself, the summer school takes field trips to view interesting places and buildings, we work on selected topics of in situ research and design workshops.

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Course leader

Associate Professor Eva Špačková, Ph.D. VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Architecture, Ludvíka Podéště 1875/17, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic, eva.spackova@vsb.cz

Target group

The summer school programme complements the university education. Particularly recommended for students in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning, history of architecture and urban history, municipal development and geography. Another target group is professionals who want to go beyond the limits of their narrow specialization and people interested on architecture in their programme of life-long education. Program is also open for high school students.

Maximum capacity of the course is 20 participants.

Course aim

Ostrava and it’s neighborhood offers a vide range of examples how to deal with many post industrial areas and buildings (some of them in the position of an industrial heritage) and how to transform them into vivid future. You can meet also empty spaces and urban wilderness in the city structure. A week program will provide workshop task, field trips and adventure experiences to introduce post-industrial region and show how cities or private investors transform post-industrial region towards it’s new future.
We provide all day programme for your five days in Ostrava, it will be mostly outdoor. You do not pay any costs for the university programme. You will pay only 40 EU administration fee. We do not organize your travels to Ostrava and back and do not provide accomodation and food in Ostrava and other travel costs.
All students who successfully finish the course programme receive a certificate evaluated by 3 ECTS credits.

Fee info

Fee is payed to cover the administration costs and is not refundable. Travel costs, food and accomodation during the course are not included.